Re: Exporting data to ASCII files - HOW?

In article 630_at_seismo.CSS.GOV, cooper_at_seismo.CSS.GOV (Dale Cooper) writes:
>In article <1230_at_grivel.une.edu.au> janene_at_metz.une.edu.au (Janene Carey) writes:
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>Is it just me or does anyone else wonder why the capability to dump Oracle
>database data to ASCII has never been included in the Oracle family of tools?
>
>A while back, an Oracle rep posted a program that would do just that. If it
>is so easy to whip something up to do this, why hasn't Oracle included it in
>their bundle of tools? Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
>

You've answered your own question. It is easy, so why provide a tool that would require so many options and switches that everyone would revert to writing their own stuff for simplicity anyway. And in any case ASCII wouldn't be sufficient, you probably mean a flat file. Remember that the mainframe world largely speaks EBCDIC.

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